Polly Toynbee Quotes

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Legacy

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Me
  • Hurt

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Help
  • Hope

• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Change
  • Second Amendment

• Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Democracy
  • Spring
  • Hell

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Future
  • Career
  • Past

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Together
  • Want
  • Giving

• And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Seen

• If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Play
  • Playing

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• We all find time to do what we really want to do.

  

  William Feather
  • Time
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Happy
  • More
  • Accomplished

• The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • School
  • Truth
  • American

• If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • People
  • Time
  • Death